PEDIATRICS Vol. 3 No. 4 April 1949, pp. 569-570
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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr. Samuel M. Wishik, former assistant director of the Division of Health Services of the Children's Bureau in Washington, has been named head of the New York City Health Department's recently reorganized Bureau for Mothers and Young Children, Dr. Harry S. Mustard, Health Commissioner, has announced. In making the appointment, Dr. Mustard declared that his department's expanded program of services for the protection of premature babies and expectant mothers was "now well under way."

The new Bureau Director is a graduate of Columbia University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He did child health work in the Health Department from 1939 to 1942, when he was appointed Senior Assistant Surgeon of the Public Health Service. He was assigned to Hawaii where he served both with the Public Health Service and the Hawaiian Board of Health in charge of maternal and child health.